Re: [atlarge-discuss] Issues

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 08:07 p.m. 25/07/2002 -0400, DannyYounger@cs.com wrote:

>This would be a good time to prioritize your user concerns, and to start
>thinking about how this group will contribute to problem resolution
>activities.  Namely, will we be assigning liaisons to interface with the GAC,
>the SOs, and the Constituencies?  Will we be sending representatives to WIPO
>sessions?  Will we be collaborating in the production of documents and
>position papers?  Will we be sending representatives to Task Forces and
>Working Groups?

Danny,

icannatlarge has to learn to crawl before it can walk.

Our highest priority is to get organized. Period.
Elected officers, task division and a Charter to protect the members 
against abuse from their own leaders.

I do not agree with Alex that this is now the time to start discussing 
specific Domain issues in this Forum.
These issues will not disappear, they are likely to get worse.
Our individual members can discuss these matters in the GA and show what 
they think there. The electorate should be able to watch them.

This is not even the time to be distracted by what ICANN is doing with its 
ALAC, and certainly not by Esther's ALOC.

What we have to do here is focus on electing *our* representatives. 
Electing the wrong people now may paralyze us for 12 months.

Our interim Panel has largely failed in carrying out its mandate, which was 
to prepare for this election, and this has led to rediculously tight 
schedules for the election now.

It has happened, transparency will show us who have been responsible and 
now we have to make the best of it.


>  Will our representatives be required to convey the
>collective views of the membership, or will they be authorized to act as
>independent agents subject only to the prospect of replacement at election
>time?

In my opinion, for a newborn bottom-up organization it would be foolish to 
grant too much independence to a Panel that is being elected in such 
unseemly haste.
Let all the candidates please give their view on this, so that the voters 
know who will stand for members' rights and who for their own "independence 
of action".


--Joop


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